#pol

Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#artists #believe #campaign #concern #conservative

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word. ↗

— Holly Near

#artists #i #lot #people #political

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility. ↗

— Holly Near

#guilt #i #linked #out #political

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy. ↗

— Scott Nearing

#another day #believed #better #bills #borrowing

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support. ↗

— John Negroponte

#consensus #country #does #hard #out

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#cautious #greatest #policy #risk #too

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#academically #big #broom #changed #could

We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#american people #apologize #been #cannot #change

An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind. ↗

— Bob Nelson

#mind #much #policy

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#anything #happen #i #makes #never